High-TC cuprate superconductors' growth conditions and their incompatibility with some of the most standard nanofabrication approaches make their large-scale integration with 2D materials (such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and other Van der Waals materials) much more difficult than for conventional, metallic superconductors. Here, we address this challenge and develop an approach based on pulsed laser deposition that allows the growth of the 2D semiconductor MoS2 on the archetypal high-TC superconductor YBa2Cu3O7−x. This yields functional heterostructures in which the individual constituents' properties are preserved and that show superconducting coupling across their interface. The developed approach paves the way for large-scale 2D semiconductor co-integration with high-TC superconductors toward the study and leverage of the superconducting proximity effect in hybrid devices.
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